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Word: claiming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Balancing two victories against two defeats, the wrestling team enters the lists against Columbia today in the indoor Athletic Building at three o'clock. With a green team that has shown up well in the past few matches, the varsity can claim success thus far except in the Navy encounter last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers to Battle Columbia Today Given Slight Edge Over Invaders | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

...seeking $1 for each page of the lifted story in every copy of the book sold, or about $60,000, but will probably get much less. Soon after More Merry-Go-Round appeared, its publishers failed, and the two authors never got any of the $12,000 they claim were due them. Counsel fees have put them out an additional $5,000 at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Men's Turn | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...swindler named Ivar Kreuger lay on his bed in a Paris apartment, put a bullet through his heart. Kreuger & Toll's subsequent collapse sapped confidence in financial wizardry, helped to precipitate Roosevelt reforms. Last week Kreuger & Toll's U.S. ,estate paid its final dividend to claim-holders, bringing its total payments to $2,743,582. With payments by the Swedish estate, the burnt-up Match King's burnt-up creditors have so far collected a scant $22.000,000 out of original claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Echoes from the Past | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Miss Bennett bowls a mean 160 when she is in top form, and the other three members of the team claim that they can give any Harvard man a good fight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Bowlers Say They Have the Stuff to Down Any Harvard Pin Men---Miss Grace Bennett Bowls Mean 160 | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...With Harding, Jameson, and Houghton graduating in the spring the Varsity will have to draw on the Houses for material," a House puckman argues. The opposition seems to claim that this is the reason Coach Hodder is alloting so much time to his Jayvees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSE HOCKEY RAISES TIME ALLOTMENT ISSUE | 2/9/1939 | See Source »

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